92 VEGETATION. 



Vitis, Porana, Uvarta, Hibiscus, Asptdocarya, Mucuna, Eiitada, 

 Mubia, Argijreia, Clematis, Hodgsonia, etc.; and of the "temperate 

 zone" Edgaria, Stauntunia, Tlmnbergia, Clematis, Rubus, Cissm, Parana, 

 Rosa, Mucuna, Jledera, Lonicera, Rubia, Jasminum, etc. Among the 

 "tropical zone" shrulDS arc Osbcdcia, Oxyspora, Plectranthcs, Clerodcn- 

 dron, Buddleia, Desmodium, Rubus, Polt/gala, Saurauja, Leea, Iitdi(iofera, 

 Trevesia, 3Iussoenda, Ixora, Coffea, 3Iorinda, Tuber nocmontana, Doedala- 

 canthus, Barlcria, Phlogocanthus, Justicla, Pavetta, etc.; and of the 

 "temperate zone" Daphne, Edgeworthia, Luculia, Leycesteria, Ardisia, 

 Buddleia, Hydrangea, Vaccinium, Rubus, Hypericum, iSauraiij'a, Reimoard- 

 tia, SJcimmia, 31clastoma, Helwingia, Brassaiopsis, Auciiba, 3Iussoenda, 

 PoUqonum, Strobilanthes, etc. 



The trees of the " tropical zone" more worthy of mention for 

 their useful or ornamental properties belong to the genera Shorea, 

 Cedrela, Morus, Quercus, Castanopsis, Artocarpiis, Bombax, Canarium, 

 Talauma, Schima, Ficiis, Gynocardia, jEsculus, Mangifera, Albiszia, 

 Bauhinia, Tcrminalia, Eugenia, Duabanga, Bassia, Alsionia, Wightia, 

 Callicarpa, Chnelina, Cimumiomnm, Blsclioffia, 3Iallotus, Betula, Alnus, 

 luglans, Engelhardtia, Salix, Popidus, Phyllanthm, Symplocos, Phcebe, 

 Cordia, Podocarpus, Piinis, etc.; and of the " temperate zone," 3Iag- 

 nolia, Michelia, Quercus, Bucklandia, Fit us. Hex, Acer, Cornus, Andromecla, 

 Prumis, Taxiis, Abies, Larix, Juniperus, Betula, 3Iachilus, etc. 



Dr. King in his Annals of the Koyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 

 describes about 17 species of figs from Sikhim, ten oaks, and four 

 chestnuts. Several of the figs are mere shrubs; a few are climbers, 

 and the others lofty trees. The leaves of many of them are prized 

 as fodder for milch cows, and are said to cause an increased yield of 

 milk. Ficus elastica yields rubber of excellent quality when care is 

 taken to collect it free from impurities, but the tree is not abundant 

 enough naturally to I'ender it of much commercial importance. The 

 fruits of several species are eaten, but are insipid and greatly 

 inferior to the ordinary cultivated figs. Several of the oaks and 

 chestnuts yield excellent building timber, and the seeds of the chestnuts, 

 although small, are good to eat. The sal {SJiorea robusta) is one of 

 the best known and durable of timbers in India. Formerly there 

 were magnificent forests of it along the liungeet, but tliey have had to 

 give way to the cultivator, and but little of their former magnificence 

 now remains. 31agnolia Campbclli is unsurpassed as a flowering tree. 

 It is a large deciduous tree, producing magnificent rosy-purple flowers 

 in spring, before the leaves expand, calling to mind the flowers of 

 some of the water-lilies, which they strongly resemble. 3Iichelia excclsa 

 produces white flowers in great profusion, at the same season of the 

 year, and its timber is one of the most useful for general i)ur])oses. 

 From the seeds of Gynocardia odorata, a common tree of the lower 



